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Docker and Kubernetes: The Complete Guide

4.7(62,495) on Udemy·331K enrolled
All levels 21.5 hours English Course Certificate
SkillsDockerKubernetesContainersCI/CDDevOpsDeployment

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A strong, hands-on way to learn Docker and Kubernetes for developers who want practical container and DevOps skills. It builds a real app end to end.

Good for: developers who want practical Docker and Kubernetes skills.

Skip if: you are new to development, or you want a quick conceptual overview.

Stephen Grider takes you from container fundamentals through custom images, Docker Compose, a full CI/CD pipeline, and production Kubernetes, tying every concept to a multi-container app you deploy. It is well paced and practical rather than theory-first.

One honest note: the CI/CD section uses Travis CI, whose free tier has since been discontinued, so you will need a workaround there — the Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals remain current. It assumes some development background, so it is not a first coding course. On price, wait for a Udemy sale.

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About this course

This course builds from Docker fundamentals (what a container actually is, namespacing, control groups) through custom image creation, Docker Compose for multi-container apps, a full CI/CD pipeline with GitHub, Travis CI, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and finally production-grade Kubernetes clusters — building a complete multi-container Fibonacci-calculator application along the way to tie every concept to a real deployed app.

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Stephen Grider
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Stephen Grider builds complex JavaScript front ends for top Bay Area corporations and is the author of Udemy's highest-rated React course, in addition to this Docker/Kubernetes course.

Frequently asked questions

Some helps, but less than you might expect. Stephen Grider designed it so that Docker fundamentals need no prior container experience, and he builds the sample applications for you, so you are not expected to be a strong developer. You should be comfortable with a command line and basic web-app concepts, though — complete non-programmers will find the deployment sections harder going.

A full path from containers to production. It starts with Docker basics and the CLI, moves through Docker Compose for multi-container apps, builds a complete CI/CD pipeline, and deploys to AWS, before going deep on Kubernetes — architecture, deployments, services, ingress, and production-grade clusters. You build and ship a real application rather than just learning commands in isolation, which is the course's main strength.

The core tools — Docker and Kubernetes — are free and open-source, so there is no licensing cost to learn them. The catch is the cloud deployment sections: running things on AWS can incur charges if you leave resources up, so follow the course's clean-up steps carefully and use free-tier options where possible to avoid an unexpected bill while practising.

Partly worth checking. The container and Kubernetes core ages slowly and remains highly relevant, but the specific CI tooling in the pipeline sections reflects when the course was built and may differ from what your team uses today, such as GitHub Actions. The concepts of a build-test-deploy pipeline transfer regardless; just be ready to map them onto whatever CI system you actually work with.

For learning Docker and Kubernetes properly with a hands-on, build-a-real-thing approach, it is one of the more respected options, with a large enrolment and strong ratings behind it. It is a paid Udemy course, usually discounted heavily during sales, with lifetime access. The value is in actually doing the deployments yourself — passively watching a course this practical wastes most of its point.
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